The fighting is fiercest when it's your home at stake! Mass Effect 3™: Earth adds mods, gear, and new maps for Rio, Vancouver, and London. It features 3 new weapons: Piranha assault shotgun, Acolyte pistol, and Typhoon light machine gun. Six new human N7 classes are also available: Destroyer, Paladin, Demolisher, Slayer, Shadow, and Fury!

they also mention the new ending DLC, but nothing more specific than what is already known.

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The Extended Cut will release on June 26th on Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3 in North America and July 4th for PlayStation 3 in Europe.

How large is the Extended Cut?

The Extended Cut requires roughly 1.9 gigabytes of storage.

How do I get the Extended Cut?

The Extended Cut can be downloaded from Xbox LIVE, Origin on PC, and PlayStation Network at no additional cost.

What is included in the Extended Cut?

The Extended Cut expands on the endings of Mass Effect 3 through additional scenes and epilogue sequences. It provides more of the answers and closure that players have been asking for. It gives a sense of what the future holds as a result of the decisions made throughout the series. And it shows greater detail in the successes or failures based on how players achieved their endings.

Does the Extended Cut change the endings?

The Extended Cut is an expansion of the original endings to Mass Effect 3. It does not fundamentally change the endings, but rather it expands on the meaning of the original endings, and reveals greater detail on the impact of player decisions.

What save game should I load to play the Extended Cut?

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To experience the Extended Cut, load a save game from before the attack on the Cerberus Base and play through to the end of the game. The Extended Cut endings will differ depending on choices made throughout the Mass Effect series, so multiple playthroughs with a variety of different decisions will be required to experience the variety of possibilities offered by the new content.

Where can I learn more about the Extended Cut?

To learn more about the Extended Cut, please enjoy the Extended Cut interview podcast with Community Manager Jessica Merizan, Executive Producer Casey Hudson, and Lead Writer Mac Walters.

so I have to replay through the ending to see the extended cut endings? I may just wait for them to hit Youtube.

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sonofa- I just realized I might not even have a save from before the spot they require; I have a tendency not to have a ton of saves beyond the quick and auto ones, although occasionally I'll make a manual one before big decisions so I might be OK there.

I just need to re-download the game to see.

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Isn't that at least two whole missions before the end sequence? Two HARD missions? I'm not sure I want to replay that much content.

it's at least:

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1) getting your Galactic Readiness from MP back to 100%2) the Cerberus base with the Kai Leng boss battle3) The Battle for Earth

Most of #3 is an unimaginative slog of a fight that seems slapped together and lazy in design. I've done it a few times with different classes. I'm curious about the extended endings, but that part of the game isn't fun.

Isn't that at least two whole missions before the end sequence? Two HARD missions? I'm not sure I want to replay that much content.

it's at least:

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1) getting your Galactic Readiness from MP back to 100%2) the Cerberus base with the Kai Leng boss battle3) The Battle for Earth

Most of #3 is an unimaginative slog of a fight that seems slapped together and lazy in design. I've done it a few times with different classes. I'm curious about the extended endings, but that part of the game isn't fun.

next DLC should be a 'skip to the end' function. I'd pay 5 bucks for that

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To cut out the middleman (and potentially any fresh content included in the missions prior to the end of the game), players who have completed the game can load up an auto-save that zips Shepard to the end of the game, labeled (spoilers!) "Citadel: The Return." Again, while you might miss added scenes during the final missions in the game, you'll go straight to all the explanatory stuff at the end.

Son of a...I don't know what I did wrong, but somehow the download didn't register right with my game and I played 2.5 hours of game and got the old ending. I was trying to avoid spoilers but I should have come in this thread :/

Basically to me it's still shit, shinier shit. But still shit. Would I of been this disappointed if these were the original endings? No, probably not. It still doesn't deal with:

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A quarter of the game is proving that synthetics and organics can be peaceful, EDI and getting peace with the geth and quarians prove this. So don't give me shit about there never being peace. All of these seems out of spite from the developers, that they had to do all this.

Is it better than what was originally there> Yeah. Are they still crummy endings? Yeah, they are just more of a "meh" instead of nerd rage.

They didn't really fix the ending, they just added/changed a few things to make it less completely WTF.

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1. They inserted a scene showing Shepard's assault team getting sent back to the Normandy, explaining how they got back on the ship2. They inserted a scene showing the Normandy being ordered away and Joker protesting3. They changed the scene where Joker is trying to outrun the wave - the Normandy is no longer coming apart and he is more calm4. Due to 3, the Normandy now has just temporarily landed on the jungle planet and later takes off and leaves5. They changed the way in which the mass relays shut down, no longer exploding, and saying they can be repaired.6. You still get the Shepard breathing scene in the destroy ending, but it is also implied he/she is dead due to the funeral scene.

There's also some additional dialog from the ghost kid saying he was created by someone else or some other nonsense.

Basically they agreed that there was a lot of nonsense in the original ending and did the best they could to fix some of the most aggregious errors without actually changing the ending story at all.

I think the new stuff is pretty solid. It's obvious that they had to take things in a different direction than they originally intended though,

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as the crash landing no longer serves any purpose,

but it all feels much more connected than before, and now really feels like the end of the story. There's not much in there to tie together your actions throughout the trilogy, except for the standard "several drawings are shown quickly after one another to give you hints about the consequences of your actions" thing that Fallout 3 started.

My favorite part of the extended ending is

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your love interest silently mourning Shepard as the plaque is placed on the Normandy. For all the time that was spent on the romance a bit of closure was sorely needed, and this new ending provides.

It's also good to see that whereas the old endings seemed to

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fuck up the galaxy for the current races forever, the extended ones show that there is actually hope.

So with the Earth DLC hitting tomorrow, is anyone planning to log into multiplayer to give it a go again? The new kits sound pretty cool. If anyone feels like playing the next few nights, let me know. I'll run some coop with ya. I'm loving my male quarian engineer - and would like to get some more practice with him.

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So with the Earth DLC hitting tomorrow, is anyone planning to log into multiplayer to give it a go again? The new kits sound pretty cool. If anyone feels like playing the next few nights, let me know. I'll run some coop with ya. I'm loving my male quarian engineer - and would like to get some more practice with him.

I haven't played in almost 2 months, and I was going to trade it in for some steam wallet dollars. But if there is enough interested with other GT folk I would like to play

So with the Earth DLC hitting tomorrow, is anyone planning to log into multiplayer to give it a go again? The new kits sound pretty cool. If anyone feels like playing the next few nights, let me know. I'll run some coop with ya. I'm loving my male quarian engineer - and would like to get some more practice with him.

I haven't played in almost 2 months, and I was going to trade it in for some steam wallet dollars. But if there is enough interested with other GT folk I would like to play

Finally downloaded all the free DLC (think there are 4), and non-suprisingly it's still very fun. All of the new classes and races look great, as do the new map locations and mission objectives. Since GT really doesn't play this anymore, I'm going to see if I can get some interest at QT3 or maybe just okay with randoms.

According to the official blurb: "Mass Effect 3: Leviathan is the first story-driven, single player DLC to be made available since Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut. Leviathan expands upon the events of Mass Effect 3 with gripping and emotional storytelling, compelling new characters, powerful weapons and unique upgrades.

"Players will be able to discover more about the origins of the reapers as they race across the galaxy to unravel the mystery that surrounds the fabled Leviathan."

Those with Leviathan installed will be privvy to extra snippets of information about the Reapers' origin - information that will be touched upon within the Leviathan DLC pack.

Seems it hasn't gone down too well in the Eurogamer comments,LOL

I can't help but feel like the commentators on Eurogamer are right. The ending truly did ruin the entire trilogy for me. The story makes absolutely no sense, it's as if they wrote the beginning and the middle of the story, and had no idea what the end should be, so they just winged it. The lack of consequences from your decisions sucks, but that's not what ruins it for me. It's the piss poor writing about the Reapers motivation. I've played both the original ending and the new ending now and nothing in the new ending changes it. In fact it actually made the piss poor writing even worse for me.

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